Master’s Project: Sputnik

Here’s the second poster in the series I’m working on for my Digital Media Studies Master’s Project. I want to cover a fairly broad range of unmanned missions and include countries other than the US, so Sputnik — the world’s first artificial satellite — was an obvious choice for one of them. The rings emanating from Sputnik itself are supposed to represent the radio signal it sent out, which could be detected on the ground by people all of the world. The text is the Russian word in the Cyrllic alphabet.

Did you know that “sputnik” is just the Russian word for “satellite?” It wasn’t a fancy name or title. They just called it what it was — a satellite. Simple and straightforward.

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I'm Sarah, a NASA engineer by day and quilter by night. I live in Houston with my husband and our two young daughters. I've had this ol' blog for more than 15 years, and these days it's home to my quilting work, snippets of family life, and occasional musings on my engineering career.